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Distribution and use of electricity throughout the home. Electrical standards vary greatly worldwide, so you need to provide your location in your question or profile to ensure you get answers that are relevant to you. Posting photographs of wiring junctions or drawing a wiring diagram and posting it is also highly recommended.
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How can I make a switch activate two circuits, when both are normally switched independently?
The easiest way is to replace the manual switch with a double-pole switch, such as this example. This allows you to switch two independent circuits with the same switch. Connect the original switch co …
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What is this "appliance control" power strip?
A quick search came up with this: (Amazon)
The disk is a touchpad which controls dimming of the lights plugged into the strip.
This took me less than one minute, entering "38AF APPLIANCE CONTROL" into …
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Changing out old two wire switch to new three wire grounded switch
Since I don't know where you are located, the rest of this answer applies to the USA:
You could get away without a ground by using a GFCI outlet, although the electrical code only really allows that for …
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Switch NO/NC Both Live
Most likely, your non-contact voltage tester is fooling you. Such devices are not perfect and everything inside the switch is probably so close together that the tester cannot really tell.
If you have …
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Main and Sub panel wiring mixture in a single switch box
Ground is ground is ground; you can always connect them together. Edit: actually, thinking further, always interconnect grounds except between different panels. The problem with mixing grounds between …
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I cut the colour coding off new light fixture -- how can I find which wires are hot and neut...
I’m going to answer assuming that the lamp takes a standard “Edison” screw-in bulb and you have a multimeter with a continuity test mode. Also, the wire colors listed assume you are in North America.
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Rewire switched outlet for ceiling fan
Your description is confusing and photos would probably help but that sounds like a basic switch loop: the black (hot) from the panel enters the outlet box and is connected to the white going to the s …
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Adding a bath fan to light circuit causes Dim light and Dim Fan
This is happening because you wired the light and fan in series instead of parallel. Therefore, the fan and the light are sharing the 120 volt supply and each receiving a fraction of the full voltage. …
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Unable to remove light fixture because of a wire entry holder
That's a strain-relief clamped to the NM-B cable sheath. It's purpose it to prevent the cable from being pulled out of the fixture and putting strain on the wire connections.
Assuming that you are tr …
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Another 3-way switch problem
I believe you have misidentified the terminals of the switches and miswired appropriately. I believe what you have identified as traveler 2 is actually the common “p” terminal. When switch one is down …
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Why don't my appliances work when my tester shows voltage at the outlets?
Often times, outlets are wired sequentially, with the wires from the power source going into one side of an outlet and the wires to the next coming out the other side (or top and bottom). It sounds li …
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Taking the garbage disposal switch off an outlet
Assuming you're using a new outlet without the tab broken, just connect the black, white and ground; cap off the red wire with a wirenut (add electrical tape if desired). …
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20/240 Outlet split to 2 16/120 PDUs
Using ground as neutral is not safe and is not allowed by the electrical code. …
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120 volt wiring problem
Sounds like a high resistance connection somewhere. Try plugging in both the 3-light tester and a light to the outlet. I expect that then, the tester will indicate something wrong. If all of the light …
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Does it matter if the power in goes into fixture before switch?
What you are proposing is called a switched neutral and is not a good idea, as well as being against code. The problem is that if you turn off the switch, there is still power being applied to the lig …
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